In Memoriam
Last Saturday, the world lost a truly good, loving, spunky, creative, kind woman. Doris Duckworth, you will be dearly missed and none of our lives will be the same without you.
Preston and Doris at our wedding
The One With A Lot Of Information About A Cool Cathedral
We're still wandering Vienna! On our way to the cathedral we stopped by a quiet little square that is now a very desirable place to live (it has quiet and parking!). The buildings used to all be part of the old Jesuit church here, but are residences now; the church still stands and is connected to the local University. We also passed Vienna's statue of Gutenberg, to whom I owe most of the childhood I spent reading. Mural on the wall of the old Jesuit complex Gutenberg! Then we went for a tour of Stephansdom, or St. Stephan's Cathedral. It's as big as a soccer field, was originally built in 1147 in the Gothic style, and was restored in the 1600-1700s with Baroque influences. The north tower, however, was never finished due to a lack of money. Mozart is buried there and his kids baptized there, and the archbishop lived right across the square. The Nazi SS actually had headquarters right by our hotel which is very close, so this area was heavily bombed. When...
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